"The worst part of it is they are asking the workers to train the Indian workers who are going to facilitate taking their jobs," he said.

Mr Cooper wants a private members bill introduced to Federal Parliament to protect Australian jobs.

He says the bill should penalise companies that send jobs offshore and to give tax breaks to those that do not.

"Quite clearly there is a strategy being used by all these companies to take advantage of the cheap, non-unionised labour in other countries in order to cut their wages bill and increase their bottom line," he said.

A Telstra worker, who did not want to be named, has been with the company for 16 years and says he has been told his job will be sent offshore by June next year.

"It's shocking you know, you have your family, your home loan, the career path you've chosen to develop - to have it taken from you is a bit of a shock," he said.

"My concern is the future as well, where does it all lead to, all these jobs going off shore? Once it starts where does it stop?"

"If the companies are just making purely economic decisions based on shareholder dividends and money then the country will have no work at all because of course we can't compete with India when someone over there is being paid a pittance," he said.

A Telstra spokeswoman says the company operates in a fast moving global market and constantly reviews the way it works.

"We do not take the decision to outsource work lightly," she said.

"These are hard decisions and difficult for the people involved, which is why we keep our people and the unions across the changes from the start - we take our obligation to consult very seriously".